Pelican.

I am not interested in your rationalisations and back-pedalling. What about the care and protection of child minors? Disgraceful!

onthebeach

Your words betray you as nothing more than a troll and I am not taking your bait. No coherent argument just ad hominem attacks. Nothing to see here.

Pelican,

So now I am a 'troll' for having the temerity to disagree with you?

For standing apart from the baying, bullying, PC mob amd insisting that a child minor should have been accorded the usual legal rights, consideration and care that is the birthright of every Australian child?

The treatment of that girl, a child minor, was wrong and nothing makes it right. She has been deliberately, coldly and ruthlessly used and abused. Shame.

onthebeach,

What a load of bunkum.

If she'd been yelling the same abuse at a school sports event, should she have been accorded leeway because of her age?

Would she instead have been made an example of, and removed from the venue - and probably disciplined by school authorities?

If yelling racial abuse by minors is not acceptable at a school event, why should it be acceptable at a general sporting event?

pelican: In fact wouldn't we all like to love and live with one another as respectful neighbours side by side.

Funny you should say that. I've got Aboriginals down the road a little & we always pick him up when he's walking into or out of town. He's very old. Indians a few houses down, Catholic. Some Bogans a little way off, don't have much to do with them. Some very, very rich people over the road. A 7day Adv lady visits all the time, Plays cards with the missus. A Zimbabwean & a Kiwi 3 houses up. An Environmental Scientist. (He dislikes Greenies) We all get along great. It's a great neighbourhood. We have a street Xmas party every year & take turns hosting. The general rule in our neighbourhood is, "tu casa, mia casa." Don't be surprised if you come home & the washing been taken of the line & folded if it rains. Anybody wants a hand it's given no matter what. It's a continual pay it forward of which none of us will ever catch up on.

pelican: There are some instances where I do feel the discrimination banner comes out too quickly without regard to intent or rational thought about what actually happened.

Agreed.

Dear Pelly and Poirot,

Some posters are essentially entertainers.
They're in it not for any kind of a discussion
because they don't even read what's actually being
posted by those they disagree with. They're in it for
their own entertainment. Troll is an apt description.

They are posters who stimulate prejudice,
selfishness, and meanness, the way a comedian works for
laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a
certain style form and in their mind - successful.
They offer their audience partisan belligerence.

Best on the whole to ignore and not engage.